Rowland Croucher
Russia; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ======== 2 August 2010 RUSSIA: BAPTIST AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESS WORSHIP SERVICES RAIDED http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1473 Worship services of Baptists and Jehovah’s Witnesses have suffered recent […]
BELIEVING, BELONGING, BEHAVING
In my work as a pastoral counsellor I can generally put the ‘presenting issues’ clients bring to our sessions into one or more of three categories: 1. Belonging: ‘I’m lonely, and find it difficult to make friends – and I’m not friends with myself either’. 2. Believing: ‘What sense can I make of this issue […]
A Perspective on Same-Sex Desire
Note from Rowland: this website has articles from many angles on this theme. Here’s a conservative one. See my comment at the end. ***** Love Divine, All Loves Excelling August 3, 2010 For whatever reason, all of us have different dispositions and face different temptations. And some, from an early age, experience same-sex attraction and […]
Senior Health Care Solution
So you’re a senior citizen and the government says no health care or pension for you, what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 MP ¢â‚¬â„¢s and 2 Senior Government Officials. Of course, this means you will be sent to prison […]
IRAN: PERSECUTION SURGES
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 067 | Wed 04 Aug 2010 Biblical revelation preaches freedom in love. Islam — like all man- made religions — demands submission to law. While the God of the Bible demands perfection in love, he freely provides a remedy for sin — Jesus Christ — and the Holy Spirit […]
Community in the Old Testament (Walter Brueggermann)
Conversations Among Exiles by Walter Brueggemann Walter Brueggermann is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Our society is marked by a deep dislocation that touches every aspect of our lives. The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective […]
Clergy Burnout
Taking a Break From the Lord ¢â‚¬â„¢s Work By PAUL VITELLO Published: August 1, 2010 The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, their use of antidepressants […]
The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus
Some time ago at a conference we both attended, Robert Crotty gave me the hardcopy ms of a book he’d just written. Its title: The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus. It was later published by HarperCollins in 1996 as The Jesus Question: the Historical Search. Thoughtful laypeople and Theology 101 students will find it […]
Should Christians Scrap Capitalism?
Call to find new economic order based on biblical vision June 14, 2010 Capitalism is deeply flawed, argues UK’s Michael Schluter. SHOULD Christians support capitalism? According to a leading English layman, despite all its material benefits, capitalism as we know it contains moral flaws with serious social consequences. I’m in no position to preach to […]
Women and Islam
Cradle of humanity reaches to the West June 28, 2010 Africa is essentially a collection of 10,000 tribes forced by colonial masters to form 50 nations. How these ancient cultures from the cradle of humanity interact with modernity will be one of more interesting stories of the coming century. African migration is just beginning to […]
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